![]() ![]() Runner-up works are now called Newbery Honor Books, so latter-day editions are authorized to display a silver seal on the cover. She was one of the runners-up again in 1929 ( Clearing Weather) and 1933 ( Swift Rivers). Members of the American Library Association were asked to nominate a book and The Windy Hill by Meigs was the last of six that received at least two votes subsequently designated runners-up. In 1922 she was one runner-up for the inaugural Newbery Medal from the professional librarians, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". Her first book, The Kingdom of the Winding Road, was published by Macmillan US in 1915. Meigs began writing children's books while an English teacher at St. After graduating from Keokuk High School in 1901 she attended Bryn Mawr College, receiving an A.B. Her sister Grace Meigs Crowder became a noted physician.The family moved to Keokuk, Iowa when she was one month old. ![]() and Grace Lynde Meigs in Rock Island, Illinois, the fifth of six daughters. ![]() Life Ĭornelia Meigs was born December 6, 1884, to civil engineer Montgomery C. She also wrote three Newbery Honor Books. She won the Newbery Medal for her 1933 biography of Louisa May Alcott, entitled Invincible Louisa. A Critical History of Children's LiteratureĬornelia Lynde Meigs (1884–1973) was an American writer of fiction and biography for children, teacher of English and writing, historian and critic of children's literature. ![]()
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